{"id":31946,"date":"2026-07-08T23:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/liam-rosenior-former-chelsea-manager-named-paris-fc-manager\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:54:52","slug":"liam-rosenior-former-chelsea-manager-named-paris-fc-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/liam-rosenior-former-chelsea-manager-named-paris-fc-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Rosenior: Former Chelsea manager named Paris FC manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Liam Rosenior has returned to football management with Paris FC after being sacked by <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Chelsea<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> in April.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 41-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c2k3ed1glp1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">lasted less than four months at Stamford Bridge<\/a> but has moved back to France on a two-year contract, which is understood to include an option for a further season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rosenior, who was with Strasbourg before taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a> job, replaces Antoine Kombouare after Paris finished 11th in Ligue 1 last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club, which is owned by the Arnault family with Red Bull as a minority shareholder, is ambitious to achieve more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paris FC said Rosenior was appointed because of his &#8220;wealth of experience at the highest level&#8221;, his ability to nurture young talent and his commitment to &#8220;attractive and attacking football&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rosenior replaced Enzo Maresca at Stamford Bridge in January following the now-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Manchester City<\/a> manager&#8217;s disagreement with members of the club hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After an encouraging start, form soon tailed off and Rosenior lost each of his final five Premier League matches in charge, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a> failing to score a goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he remains highly regarded for his work at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a>&#8216;s sister club Strasbourg, who finished seventh in 2024-25 and qualified for the Uefa Conference League with the youngest squad across Europe&#8217;s top five leagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rosenior began his coaching career with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Brighton<\/a> Under-23s before moving to Derby County, first as Wayne Rooney&#8217;s assistant before taking over as interim boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was named Hull City head coach in 2022 and led them to 15th in the Championship in his first season and then seventh in his second, but was sacked having missed out on the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a> have replaced Rosenior with former Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen manager Xabi Alonso, with the ex-Spain midfielder the sixth permanent manager at Stamford Bridge in four years under BlueCo ownership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gy6jm0k65o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Rosenior has returned to football management with Paris FC after being sacked by Chelsea in April. The 41-year-old lasted less than four months at Stamford Bridge but has moved back to France on a two-year contract, which is understood to include an option for a further season. Rosenior, who was with Strasbourg before taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31948,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31946\/revisions\/31948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}